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Monday, March 30, 2015

The 3rd Annual Tigers Meet Harlequin Extravaganza!

This blog has been in existence for 12 years and by my count I've had two great ideas in that entire time. 1) Starting the blog in the first place and 2) Imagining players from my favorite baseball team, the Detroit Tigers, as heroes in category (specifically Harlequin) romance novels. Long-time visitors of this blog acknowledge the existence of two universal truths:

And Lord help us all, I seem to have developed a very loyal (Dare I say it? Slightly obsessive?) following to these posts. Which means I guess I'll be stuck doing them every spring until people grow to hate them, I run out of ideas or players. Whichever comes first.

For those of you who are new here, it's really quite simple. I take a real life player on the current Detroit Tigers roster. I look at him as a person, a player, co-op a bit of his real life story, and throw in a bunch of completely made-up stuff to concoct a category romance novel around him. Yes, it's as twisted as it sounds. No, I haven't gotten a cease and desist letter from anyone yet.

This year I've got four new players, four new stories, and gird your loins girls - this year Wendy tackles an amnesia plot. Relive the passion, relive the glory, the 2015 roster gets kicked off starting tomorrow.

Point taken: y'all are "very loyal" and not the least bit "obsessive."

Kristie: So many good ones for you to revisit! I'm partial to Miguel Cabrera's and I really need to cook up another Presents plot. Although of that first year, Prince Fielder was the clear favorite for many. In year two, I loved Jose Iglesias' secret baby plot - although my personal favorite might be the Rick Porcello story. When Detroit traded him to Boston this past off-season I was heartbroken.